Writing in 1917, T. S. Eliot answers those who dismissed Ezra Pound as a poseur by examining his work closely: his metrical experiments, his use of Provençal and Chinese sources, the alliterative ‘Seafarer’ and the poems of Lustra. A bibliography of Pound’s books to that date closes the essay.
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